Sylvia Plath’s reimagination of the Grimms’ fairy tales in postwar American culture
dc.contributor.author | Tamás, D | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-12T12:45:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-06-30 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article discusses Sylvia Plath’s overlooked juvenilia poems and contextualizes them in postwar American culture. The fairy tales were significant cultural products during the 1950s, that also continue to define the culture today through Disney’s adaptations. Plath loved Grimms’ tales; several of her poems show direct engagement with tales. The first half of my article looks at Plath’s juvenilia poems and their reimagination of fairy-tale narratives. For Plath, the fairy tales functioned as a way to retell her life events. Whilst, the second part of my research uses a psychoanalytical approach to link “momism” in postwar America with the evil witch figure. By close-reading “The Disquieting Muses” poem, I demonstrate Plath’s engagement with the ambiguous mother whose food, similar to the witch in “Hansel and Gretel”, function to deceive the children. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 30 June 2021 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/24692921.2021.1947081 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/126377 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Routledge | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Postwar America | en_GB |
dc.subject | Sylvia Plath | en_GB |
dc.subject | Grimms' fairy tales | en_GB |
dc.subject | momism | en_GB |
dc.subject | witches | en_GB |
dc.title | Sylvia Plath’s reimagination of the Grimms’ fairy tales in postwar American culture | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2021-07-12T12:45:50Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2469-2921 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Feminist Modernist Studies | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2021-06-30 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2021-07-12T12:41:50Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-07-12T12:46:05Z | |
refterms.panel | D | en_GB |
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